Sword And Sorceress 25

Sword and Sorceress #25

by Elisabeth Waters (Editor/Contributor), Dave Smeds (Contributor), Helen E. Davis (Contributor)

Women of Strength and Courage...For over two decades, the late Marion Zimmer Bradley, best-selling and beloved author, discovered and nurtured a grand generation of popular and acclaimed writers including Mercedes Lackey, Jennifer Roberson, and a host of others. Authors who have appeared within the pages of Sword and Sorceress represent the full spectrum of some of the brightest talent working today­from C.J. Cherryh, Charles de Lint, and Emma Bull... to Deborah J. Ross, Diana L. Paxson, Steven Brust, and Laurell K. Hamilton.We are proud to continue the classic and vibrant feminist tradition with this twenty-fifth volume of new magical adventures edited by Elisabeth Waters, secretary and co-editor to Mrs. Bradley.Here are twenty original stories of remarkable women of power, swashbuckling and magic, spells and duels, arcane sorcery and fabled heroism, written by familiar word-weavers of excitement and adventure, and bright newcomers who are sure to become favorites.Enter a wondrous universe...Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and SorceressSword and Sorceress 25 includes stories by Dave Smeds, Amy Griswold, Michael H. Payne, Michael Spence, Elisabeth Waters, Deborah J. Ross, Catherine Soto, Pauline J. Alama, L. M. Townsend-Crow, K. D. Wentworth, Helen E. Davis, Robin Wayne Bailey, Steve Chapman, Steven Brust, Kate Coombs, Jonathan Moeller, Lauren K. Moody, Josepha Sherman, Barbara Tarbox, Jonathan Shipley, and Susan Wolven.

Genres: Fantasy, Short Stories, Anthologies, Fiction

295 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 15, 2010

About the author

Elisabeth Waters sold her first short story in 1980 to Marion Zimmer Bradley for The Keeper's Price, the first of the Darkover anthologies. She then went on to sell dozens of short stories to a variety of anthologies. Her first novel, a fantasy called Changing Fate, was awarded the 1989 Gryphon Award. Its sequel is Mending Fate, published in 2016.

She currently writes short stories and has edited the Sword and Sorceress anthology series, which ended with Sword and Sorceress 34.

She has also worked as a supernumerary with the San Francisco Opera, where she appeared in La Gioconda, Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly, Khovanschina, Das Rheingold, Werther, and Idomeneo.

Reviews

[Karen-Leigh · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the last one I purchased in the Sword and Sorceress series, now I will go back and start at number one. I have enjoyed the four I have read so far but they were all produced by someone other than Marion Zimmer Bradley...I will get to see if there is a difference. Another Cluny squirrel mage.

[Rachel Olivier · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was an uneven bag of stories. Many were good, a few excellent and a couple I couldn't figure out how they got in, except maybe they were friends or friends of friends of someone? The returning writers with continuing storylines I obviously enjoyed. But, I don't know. This one just didn't seem up to the standard of the old MZB series I have on my shelves. Maybe it's been going downhill for a while, and I just haven't noticed. I hope 26 and the rest get better.

Also, whoever formatted the ebook for this one didn't do a very good job. As someone who's had to do this myself, I know it's a pain. But you either have to choose to have a first line auto indent (say of about 2 space) in the formatting box OR you have no indent and have a 6pt left in the "after" box in the formatting section. So you get enough space between paragraphs that even without indents you can tell it's a new paragraph. The formatting for this ebook had it at no indent and no spaces between paragraphs. It made for very clunky reading. I got used to it, and I would expect this in an amateur who is self-publishing. But these are professionals. I expect better.

[Jimyanni · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a pretty standard entry in this series, and since I've enjoyed this series enough to still be reading it at entry 25, that says something, I suppose. For those of you who have followed the series all along, or even who have simply read one or more of the previous entries, all I need say is that this book holds up well to its predecessors. For those who are new to the series, this is a collection of short stories in the heroic fantasy genre in which each story centers on a female character. That does not mean that there are no men in the stories, or that all of the authors are women. It simply means that the primary character is female. There is no reason to feel that you can't read this book until you've read the previous 24 books; most of the stories are one-shots, and even those that continue the stories of characters established in previous anthologies give enough backstory to be perfectly understandable without having read the previous stories. Not to say that the previous anthologies aren't worth reading; they are. But there's no particular reason to have to read them chronologically.

[E_bookpushers · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another solid entry in my favorite anthology series. I am very glad they have continued to publish these yearly.

[Debbie Ledesma · Rating 4 out of 5]

Full of entertaining stories.